Friends, this interview is well worth listening to. Our Congressman not only describes the dire situation in Central America but also his own situation against an establishment run candidate, Dave Trott, who is heavily supported by the not so popular US Chamber of Commerce.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Our Congressman is being primaried by an establishment chosen foreclosure lawyer that is literally trying to buy this election. If anyone wants to keep the status quo they should vote for Dave Trott, but the real gem here is:KERRY BENTIVOLIO FOR MICHGAN'S 11th DistrictKerry has a proven record.

Government Transparency: #1 among 84 House FreshmenBills Introduced: 5th highest among House Freshmen (tied with 4 others)Bills Cosponsored: Highest 10% among House RepublicansIdeology Score: Most Conservative 10% (by cosponsorship) among ALL RepublicansCosponsoring Bipartisan Bills: Highest 30% among House RepublicansMissed Votes: Lowest 20% among ALL Representatives

Economic FreedomScored 100% by Freedomworks.org

Rated “A” by standagainstspying.orgHis staff has won TWO constituent service awardsHe has an outstanding mobile office to make it easier for his constituents to get help with issues and voice their concerns.

In the HOUSE

Kerry serves on the Committee on Oversight and Government ReformSubcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation & Regulatory AffairsSubcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations

He is an active participant in the investigation of the IRS targeting scandal & the State Department efforts to obstruct the investigation into Benghazi.

Kerry also serves on the Small Business CommitteeSubcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and RegulationsSubcommittee on Contracting and WorkforceThe following is some of his opponents bio:

-Foreclosure Attorney - has kicked several hundred thousand people out of their homes-GOP Mega donor to moderate candidates-Works on behalf of the bailed out Wall St. banks-He has a war on veterans-Endorsed by the largest Pro-Amnesty group in the country

Our opponent has made so much money from the bailed out Wall St. banks and his foreclosure work that he has the ability to pour in millions of dollars into his campaign to hide his past. In fact, he's already poured in 2.4 millions dollars in an attempt to buy this congressional seat.

He also was the first candidate to go negative and has been running a mud slinging campaign. The foreclosure attorney can't run on his own record so he is trying to distort Kerry's record.

If Kerry's opponent is elected, he will be another vote for amnesty in Congress.

Monday, February 3, 2014

In early January 2014, Bob
Lonsberry, a Rochester talk radio personality on WHAM 1180 am said this in
response to Obama's "income inequality speech" .

Two Americas

The Democrats are right, there are two
Americas.The America
that works, and the America that doesn't.The America that contributes, and the
America that doesn't.It's not the haves and the haven'ts,
it's the dos and the don'ts.Some people do their duty as Americans,
obey the law, support themselves, contribute to society, and others don't.
That's the divide in America.

It's not about income inequality, it's
about civic irresponsibility.It's about a political party that
preaches hatred, greed and victimization in order to win elective
office.It's about a
political party that loves power more than it loves its country. It's not
invective, it's truth, and it's about time someone said
it.The politics of envy
was on proud display a couple weeks ago when president Obama pledged the
rest of his term to fighting "income inequality." He noted that some
people make more than other people, that some people have higher incomes
than others, and he says that's not just.

That is the rationale of thievery. The
other guy has it, you want it, Obama will take it for you. Vote
Democrat.That is the
philosophy that produced Detroit. It is the electoral philosophy that is
destroying America.It
conceals a fundamental deviation from American values and common sense
because it ends up not benefiting the people who support it, but a
betrayal.

The
Democrats have not empowered their followers, they have enslaved them in a
culture of dependence and entitlement, of victimhood and anger instead of
ability and hope.The
president's premise - that you reduce income inequality by debasing the
successful - seeks to deny the successful the consequences of their
choices and spare the unsuccessful the consequences of their
choices.By and large,
income variation in society is a result of different choices leading to
different consequences. Those who choose wisely and responsibly have far
greater likelihood of success, while those who choose foolishly and
irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure. Success and
failure frequently manifest themselves in personal and family
income.You choose to
drop out of high school and you are apt to have a different outcome than
someone who gets a diploma and pushes on with purposeful
education.You have your
children out of wedlock and life is apt to take one course, you have them
within a marriage and life is apt to take another
course.

My doctor
makes far more than I do. There is significant income inequality between
us. Our lives have had an inequality of outcome, but, our lives also have
had an inequality of effort. While my doctor went to college and then
devoted his young adulthood to medical school and residency, I got a job
in a restaurant.He made
a choice, I made a choice, and our choices led us to different outcomes.
His outcome pays a lot better than mine.Does that mean he cheated and Barack
Obama needs to take away his wealth? No, it means we are both free men in
a free society where free choices lead to different
outcomes.It is not
inequality Barack Obama intends to take away, it is
freedom.The freedom to
succeed, and the freedom to fail. There is no true option for success if
there is no true option for failure.The pursuit of happiness means a whole
lot less when you face the punitive hand of government if your pursuit
brings you more happiness than the other guy. Even if the other guy sat on
his arse and did nothing. Even if the other guy made a lifetime's worth of
asinine and shortsighted decisions.Barack Obama and the Democrats preach
equality of outcome as a right, while completely ignoring equality of
effort.The simple Law
of the Harvest - as ye sow, so shall ye reap - is sometimes applied as,
"The harder you work, the more you get." Obama would turn that upside
down. Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those
who fail are to be rewarded as wards of society.Entitlement will replace effort as the
key to upward mobility in American society if Barack Obama gets his way.
He seeks a lowest common denominator society in which the government
besieges the successful and productive to foster equality through
mediocrity.He and his
party speak of two Americas and their grip on power is based on using the
votes of one to sap the productivity of the other.

America is not divided by the
differences in outcomes, it is divided by the differences in efforts. It
is a false philosophy to say one man's success comes about unavoidably as
the result of another man's victimization.What Obama offered was not a solution,
but a separatism. He has fomented division and strife, pitted one set of
Americans against another for his own political benefit. That's what
socialists offer.Marxist class warfare wrapped up with a
bow.Two Americas,
coming closer each day to proving the truth to Lincoln's maxim that a
house divided against itself cannot stand

Sunday, September 22, 2013

I've been asked several times what I think about Common Core Standards. At first I did not pay attention to this issue, but as it is more and more coming to the forefront , I decided to look into it. After all, I have to look out for my grandchildren.

It turns out that I am not in support of it. Below is some information I have found to share so that the readers can decide for themselves.

1. Common Core is a Federal Takeover of Education
2. Common Core is bad for parents
3. Common Core is bad for Teachers
4. Common Core is bad for Taxpayers
5. Common Core is bad for Students
6. Common Core violates Privacy
7. Common Core resembles Failed No Child left behind Program
8. Common Core is unconstitutional
9. Common will require some states to move backwards
10. Common is a failed education approach.

Click on the link below to see an explanation to each of the 10 reasons why Common Core should not be supported by your State.

Although the state leaders would like to make the public think the state wrote the Common Core standards truth is there were 5 people responsible for writing the Common Core standards we see today.

David Coleman and Susan Pimentel (ELA) Dr. Jason Zimba, Phil Daro and Bill McCallum (Math). This FACT can be substantiated. It is clear that Dr. Zimba doesn't think very highly of the very standards he wrote. Dr. Stotsky was also a member of the Common Core Validation Committee and she was responsible for the outstanding academic achievement of her home state of MA. She refused to sign off on the Common Core standard final document.

Dr. Jim Milgram of Stanford University was also on the CC Validation Committee (the only math standard content expert on the CC Validation Committee) and he too refused to sign off on the final standards. His research indicates children with only an Algebra II education graduate from college at a rate of only 39.3% . While students that enter college with Calculus graduate college at a rate of 83.3%. The panel of real expertise in the field of standard development boiled down to Dr. Stotsky and Dr. Milgram and they both refused to sign off on the final standards. Dr. Milgram also states that CC is not for the top 30% of students. The top 30% will regress to the median and we will be left with mediocracy at best.

My summation of what I see is:

The children of the common people will be TRAINED to fill the low paying jobs (this is why the dumbing down) while children of the elite class will get the best EDUCATION.

This explains why Sidwell Friends (the school where President Obama sends his daughters) does not support Common Core and have no intentions of bringing CC into their school. I placed a call to the admissions department at Sidwell Friends in DC and they told me they do not use Common Core. I was told they have their own standards and curriculum. I then asked if there were plans to implement Common Core in the future and they said NO. I think you will find that just like Obamacare many of our elected officials and the elite class are not subjecting their children to Common Core.

The real goal of Common Core is to finally develop a full blown school to work program where ourchildren are trained not educated.

TEACHERS FEEL URGENCY OF COMMON CORE STANDARDS

The following article by the Advocate is loaded with information and videos about Common Core. I urge you to read and listen.